Knots in the Grain
MUSICAL RELIEF EFFORTS: Just as Time magazine’s person of the year has sometimes gone to an influential evildoer, any reflection on the most impacting personality in American music in 2005 must settle on one name: Katrina. Her fury laid bare social and political inequities-not to mention dormant racism in America-while also focusing the world’s attention on one of this planet’s most soulful cities.